“[I]n 2007, at age 72…[Carolyn] confessed that she had fabricated the most sensational part of her testimony. 'That part’s not true,' she told Tyson, about her claim that Till had made verbal and physical advances on her. As for the rest of what happened that evening in the country store, she said she couldn’t remember. (Carolyn is now 82, and her current whereabouts have been kept secret by her family.)...Carolyn became reflective in Timothy Tyson’s presence, wistfully volunteering, 'Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.' She also admitted she 'felt tender sorrow,' Tyson would note, 'for Mamie Till-Mobley'—Emmett Till’s mother, who died in 2003 after a lifetime spent crusading for civil rights
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